Ophthalmic contributions / by George Strawbridge.

  • Strawbridge, George, 1844-1914.
Date:
1873
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Credit: Ophthalmic contributions / by George Strawbridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 a summary of the cases of dermoid tumor of the cornea reported up to that time, twenty-seven in number occurring on the human eye, three on oxen's eyes, and four on the eyes of dogs. Tumors of this kind are also reported by Graefe,1 Tirchow,2 Arlt,3 Mackenzie, White, Cooper,4 W. T. Taliaferro,5 Hulke,6 and H. E. Swanzy.7 Dermoid growths were formerly known under the name of warts, and confounded with many other forms of tumors. They occur most fre- quently on the lower outer portion of the cornea, less so on the upper corneal border, more rarely on the inner corneal border. Cases are also re- ported occurring in the scleral conjunctiva at the inner palpebral angle: as a rule, they will be found in the broad zone lying rather beneath the horizontal meridian of the eyeball than above it, in the direction of the zone of the lid commis- sure. They vary in size from that of a grain of pep- 1 Archiv fur Ophthalmologie, rii. 2, page 3, x. 1, page 214. 2 Archiv fur Patkologische Anatoinie. Seclister Band. Heft. 4, 555. 3 Arlt's Krankheiten der Binde und Hornhaut, page 170. 4 London Med. Gaz., Nov. 1841, page 278. s Am. Journ. Med. Sci., July, 1841, page 88. 6 Ophth. Hosp. Rep., vol. iii. p. 332.